December 1914 calendar

Events

• 02 Dec 1914 Austria army occupies Belgrade Serbia.
• 04 Dec 1914 Walter Johnson accepts money from Federal League Chicago Whales Clark Griffith threatens to take Johnson to court.
• 05 Dec 1914 The Italian Parliament proclaims the neutrality of the country.
• 08 Dec 1914 Connie Mack sells Eddie Collins to the Chicago White Sox.
• 10 Dec 1914 French government returns to Paris.
• 11 Dec 1914 Stockton Street Tunnel (San Francisco) completed.
• 12 Dec 1914 The New York Stock Exchange re-opened, having been closed since 1 Aug 1914 except for bond trading.
• 14 Dec 1914 Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressive Party (Partido Democrata Progresista, PDP) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires.
• 15 Dec 1914 British fleet forfeits chance to destroy German fleet in North Sea.
• 16 Dec 1914 World War I: German battleships under Franz von Hipper bombard the English ports of Hartlepool and Scarborough.
• 17 Dec 1914 Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv by Turkish authorities.
• 18 Dec 1914 Egypt becomes a British protectorate.
• 19 Dec 1914 The Battle of Kolubara ends, resulting in a decisive Serbian victory over Austria-Hungary.
• 23 Dec 1914 World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt.
• 24 Dec 1914 German plane drops bombs on Dover England.
• 25 Dec 1914 Legendary / unofficial Christmas Truce takes place (Brits & Germans)
• 29 Dec 1914 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, is serialised in The Egoist.
• 31 Dec 1914 Colonel Jacob Ruppert and Captain Huston purchase New York Yankees for $460,000.

Famous Birthday

• Richard Widmark

  American actor who made his memorable screen debut as a psychotic killer in "Kiss Of Death," 1947.

• Christine Gouze-Rénal

  French film producer known in France; her production credits began in 1955.

• José Manuel Lara Hernández
• Dorothy Lamour

  American actress who made the sarong famous in her first film, "The Jungle Princess," 1936.

• Billy Tipton

  American jazz musician who lived life as a man, finding this the only way to be accepted as a competent musician.

• Larry Parks

  American actor who made a debut on Broadway in 1937 and in film in 1941 in "Mystery Ship.

• Antoine Reboulot
• Herbert Reinecker

  Very prolific German novelist, dramatist and screenwriter.

• Odette Joyeux

  French actress, playwright and novelist.

• Alziro Zarur
• David Dozier

  American astrologer.

• Jo Van Fleet

  Actress (Seize the Day, Cinderella), dies at 75.

• Tom Weir

  Scottish climber, author and broadcaster (Born 1914).

• Astrid Henning-Jensen
• Alan Bullock

  British author of the first biography of Hitler written in any language.

• Cornelius Crone

  Dutch novelist.

• Jean Diwo

  French journalist and writer, a reporter for Paris Match, who later founded and directed the magazine "Tele 7 Jours" from 1960 to 1981.

• Patrick O'Brian

  English author and translator (d. 2000).

• Rudolf Hausner

  Austrian painter and sculptor (d. 1995).

• Pat Brady in Toledo

  Ohio, USA; actor (Roy Rogers Show).

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Famous Deaths

• Charles Martin Hall

  American chemist and inventor (Born 1863).

• Eduard Jacobs Dutch cabaret artist

  dies at age 47.

• Watkins Lewis

  black man lynched in Shreveport Louisiana.

• Giovanni Sgambati composer

  dies at age 73.

• Johann F Ritter von Schulte German catholic lawyer

  dies at age 87.

• John Muir

  Scottish naturalist, explorer and writer who campaigned for forest conservation in the U.S.

• Maximilian von Spee

  German naval officer (Born 1861).

• Ivan Zajc

  Croatian composer conductor and director (d. 1914).

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Top #4 songs in the USA

1. Billy Murray - They Start the Victrola (And Go Dancing Around the Floor)
2. Victor Light Opera Co. - Gems from The Girl from Utah
3. John McCormack - Lullaby from Jocelyn (Angels Guard Thee)
4. Elida Morris - The High Cost of Loving